With a great H&S game like Path Of Exile out, and Grim Dawn coming, I always felt like "Why would I want to play this one?". Did anyone play this and can recommend it (or advice against it)?

I would say skip it, except for amusing dialogs between protagonists(and well voice acted) this is pretty much inferior clone of Torchlight II(which is not great game to begin with).With content patch for Path of exile coming this month there is no reason to get this now.